Transformative digital spaces? Investigating women’s digital mobilities in Pakistan

Q1 Social Sciences

Gender and Development Pub Date : 2022-09-02 DOI:10.1080/13552074.2022.2130516

H. Majid, M. Mustafa

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper explores the intersection of work with access to and use of digital technologies and the resulting impact on women’s empowerment. Drawing on detailed in-depth interviews across Pakistan with low-literate, low-income women employed in three categories of work – domestic, factory, and home-based – we map how women’s work intersects with their access to digital technologies to affect their economic and social lives. Our paper highlights the barriers that women face and explores whether and how in a patriarchal, religious context with restricted physical mobility and limited access to the internet, women circumnavigate their constraints by leveraging digital technologies.

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变革的数字空间?调查巴基斯坦女性的数字流动

摘要本文探讨了工作与获取和使用数字技术的交叉点，以及由此对妇女赋权的影响。根据对巴基斯坦各地从事家务、工厂和家庭三类工作的低文化、低收入女性的详细深入采访，我们绘制了女性的工作如何与她们获得数字技术的机会交叉，从而影响她们的经济和社会生活。我们的论文强调了女性面临的障碍，并探讨了在父权制、宗教背景下，女性是否以及如何通过利用数字技术来绕过她们的限制。

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Gender and Development Social Sciences-Gender Studies

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